Product Description
This up-to-date new book describes the alarming events of 2010 after an oil rig toppled over in the Gulf of Mexico releasing millions of gallons of oil into the water. The largest accidental oil spill in history, it killed untold numbers of wildlife, poisoned over a hundred miles of coastal land, and devastated the commercial fishing and tourism industries in an area still reeling from the destruction wreaked by Hurricane Katrina.Product Videos
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Author Lynn Peppas
Series Disaster Alert
Language English
Book Type Nonfiction
Grade Content 6
Guided Reading Level S
Lexile 1030
Accelerated Reading Level 6.8
Subject Science
Standard S6E5e. Create a model showing how natural processes and human activity change the surface of Earth.
Copyright 2011